Paper by HAS arguing case for additional positions to intercept German tactical short...

HW 14/44

1942 July 21-31

Paper by HAS arguing case for additional positions to intercept German tactical short range comms on a Second Front; provision of cable for teleprinters in Elmers School; policy statement on BP central W/T Section, notes by AD (S) on tasks for Sayer, possible future head of central W/T Section; Cantab production at Letchworth; F cover on Western Front, RAF Sigint policy on Western Front, HAS's notes on meeting at AM on July 25; outstanding points on Ultra procedures; administration of RAF Section at GCCS; fortnightly summaries of German agent reports and monthly AS report on cypher research and exploitation; notes by HC Kenworthy on training of non-morse intercept operators, Kenworthy's report on visit to Beaumanor July 24 and demonstrations there of Army RFP equipment; charter for HQ Military Wing and Nos 4 and 6 Army Intelligence Schools at BP; Mr Lucas to form Research Section in Hut 3, subsequently to be entitled SALU, derived from the names of its two initiators, Saltmarsh and Lucas; decodes of French Resistance communications sent from AD (S) to SIS; Type X requirements for GCCS and Service stations, maintenance of Type X machines at BP; GCCS study on GAF Y Service; proposal by AW Bonsall of AS that RAF bombers should carry a German linguist on board to monitor GAF fighter voice comms; GCCS lecture on GAF for Sigint students at 50 Signals Depot Newbold Revel; minute from AD (S) to C on irresponsible Sigint talk during recruitment interviews at WO, subsequent letter from C to WO; Hugh Orr-Ewing's support for Mrs Boyd-Bowman as exceptionally talented foreign language tutor; liaison with Russia, SS inject Scopolamine and Mescalin into Allied agents captured by Germans after being parachuted into Russia; liaison with Canada and South Africa; correspondence with CBME, HAS proposes establishment of SALU fusion party in ME, interrogation report on German Sigint unit captured at El Alamein on July 10; liaison with FECB at Kilindini Mombassa, with Shaw at Kilindini; manning of 371 WU in West Africa; intelligence from diplomatic cable intercepts of French communications from Leeward Islands re movements of a Monsieur de la Blanchetai

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